Smilavichy Ghetto

The Smilavichy Ghetto was a Jewish ghetto in the Belarusian town of Smilavichy that existed in late 1941. Known as "Smilovitz" in Yiddish, the ghetto was liquidated on the orders of Walter Braemer on 14 October 1941, and 1,338 inhabitants were massacred by Nazi Germany.